Diddy charged with racketeering, sex trafficking

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Diddy charged with racketeering, **** trafficking

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with three federal charges of racketeering ***********, **** trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, according to an unsealed indictment.

Combs, 54, was arrested in Manhattan by federal agents on Monday night following a year in which his career was derailed by several lawsuits accusing him of physical and ******* ******.

Marc Agnifilo, Combs’ lawyer, said he was disappointed with the decision to pursue an “unjust prosecution” of the rapper and producer.

“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children and working to uplift the ****** community,” Agnifilo said on Monday night.

“He is an imperfect person but he is not a *********.”

Agnifilo added that Combs voluntarily relocated to New York in anticipation of the charges.

Combs, who has also been known as P Diddy and Puff Daddy, was a major figure in hip-hop in the 1990s and 2000s.

He founded the label Bad Boy records and is credited with helping turn rappers and R&B singers such as Mary J Blige, ****** Evans, Notorious BIG and Usher into stars.

His reputation came under ***** last November when former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, an R&B singer known as Cassie, accused him in a lawsuit of serial physical ******, ******* slavery and ***** during their decade-long relationship.

She agreed to an undisclosed settlement one day after suing, even as Combs denied her allegations.

His legal pressures mounted, and he has faced several civil lawsuits by women and men who accused him of ******* ******** and other misconduct.

His lawyers have been fighting those cases in court.

Federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Florida six months ago.

Singer Dawn Richard, formerly of Danity Kane, last week accused Combs in a lawsuit of ******* ********, battery, **** trafficking, gender discrimination and ******.

A Michigan judge this month ordered Combs to pay $US100 million ($A148 million) to Derrick Lee Smith, who said Combs drugged and ********* assaulted him at a party almost 30 years ago, after Combs ******* to show up to defend himself in court.

A lawyer for Combs said he would seek to dismiss that judgment.

Combs has also rejected claims in a February **** trafficking lawsuit by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who Combs employed as a producer on his 2023 release The Love Album: Off the Grid.

Combs was acquitted in March 2001 of bribery and weapons charges in a ********* trial stemming from a nightclub ********* that left three people wounded.

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